My dad worked there for about forty years, starting in 1938. He was sent to Dayton for awhile to work in a (presumably GM, because his seniority counted at retirement) factory to balance aircraft propellers. Guide also absorbed Brown, Lipe, Chapman from Ohio in the late thirties. Dad was a buffer, both hand and automatic, for the various chrome plated headlight shells made at Guide. (This was in addition to working an 80 acre farm in Alexandria) I remember taking at least two tours through the plant where I saw them stamping the tractor lamp shells out of brass, on a continuous feed Verson press. A couple of weeks ago, at the Flywheelers swap meet in South Haven, Mi, I bought two chromed Guide tractor light shells and rims, possibly worklamps, since they had holes punched in the rear for off/on switches. Quite possibly my Dad buffed them. Nice bit of memory, seeing that the plant has been torn down. I was back in town for an Aunt's funeral a couple of years ago. State Road 109 is just a ghost highway now, and Anderson just isn't the same anymore. It's hard to go back.
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